University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
by Melvin R. Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A classic of ethnobotany, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region has been enlarged for this Bison Book edition with thirty drawings, by Bellamy Parks Jansen, of plants discussed by Gilmore. The taxonomic glossary has been updated as well. Readers will find here, conveniently described,...
by Gregory D. Smithers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the...
by Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-INAH Award in Mexico for Best Research Work in Anthropology
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in Bolivia,...
Lefty O'Doul
Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From San Francisco to the Ginza in Tokyo, Lefty O’Doul relates the untold story of one of baseball’s greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan.
Lefty O’Doul (1897–1969) began his career on the sandlots of San Francisco and...
Beneficial Bombing
The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement—to...
by Mari Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Young Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine. With eyes growing sharper, he watches the warring between tribes, the buffalo hunting, the daily routine—and shows it all in pictures drawn...
George Sword's Warrior Narratives
Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics...
The Newspaper Warrior
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been...
How to Cook a Tapir
A Memoir of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long “working honeymoon” in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping...
Indians in the United States and Canada
A Comparative History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Drawing on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces the changing relationships between Native peoples and whites in the United States and Canada from colonial times to the present. Dividing this history into five stages, beginning with Native supremacy over European...
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her first major novel, The Gates Ajar. An international success, the novel sold more than six hundred...
Illicit Love
Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth...
Elder Northfield's Home
or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield’s Home, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a staunchly...
When Baseball Went White
Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is one that most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did...